A History of Agriculture and Prices in England

by Rogers, James E. Thorold; Roger, Arthur G. L.

• ISBN13: 9781108036580
• ISBN10: 1108036589
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2011-12-22
• Publisher: Cambridge Univ Pr

Summary

Since early times, agriculture has been pivotal to England's economy. This is the two-part seventh in a magisterial seven-volume, eight-piece compilation by the economist James E. Thorold Rogers (1823-90), which represents the most complete record of produce costs in England between the thirteenth and eighteenth centuries. Drawing on a variety of sources including college archives and the Public Record Office, Rogers documents the fluctuating prices of commodities such as livestock, wheat, hay, wool, textiles and labour in a time of great economic change, when the growing economy of the early middle ages was shaken by famine and the Black Death, and then gradually recovered towards the Agrarian Revolution. First published in 1902 (and edited by Rogers' son), Part 1 presents data from 1703 to 1793, showing the prices of a range of products across the country; Part 2 consists of further documentary information collected by Rogers for the work.

Table of Contents

Introduction

Notes from the Cholmeley and Howard papers

Gifts made by All Souls

Income of All Souls from 1764âÇô5 to 1793âÇô4

Contrast of prices 1710âÇô11

Estimated produce of wool

An account of investments and losses in the bubbles

A statement of wages appointed by the justices in the West Riding of Yorkshire

An account of the prices of labour, about 1797, from Mortimer's Art of Husbandry

An account of the prices of labour, about 1727, from Edward Laurence's Duty of a Steward

A statement of wages appointed by the justices in the counties of Kent and Gloucester

Tables illustrating the rates of wages paid in various parts of England, extracted from Arthur Young's Tour

An account of the profits arising from the farm at Holkham, and the disbursements for management

Prices of stock - South Sea Company

Prices of stock - Bank of England

Prices of stock - East India Company

Prices of stock - Consolidated Three per Cents

Index

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